Downgrade the CDMA HTC EVO 3D to HBOOT 1.40 from 1.50 S-ON, then root with Revolutionary

While still early on and a bit complex, downgrading the HTC EVO 3D from HBOOT 1.50 to 1.40 on Sprint/CDMA was accomplished yesterday, meaning you can get your phone into a state that allows you to run Revolutionary's S-OFF unlocker.

The process is complex, requires booting a computer into a functioning Linux OS at the moment, and works best with two SD cards. At the least, it requires a computer with the ability to write to the EVO's microSD card, a wall charger, and liquid courage. It's not for the faint of heart, and it's guaranteed to, at least temporarily, brick your phone for the exploit to succeed.

With S-OFF you'll be able to update or change the radios without reverting to stock and having the phone wiped twice, as well as lock and unlock the bootloader at will, all without raising flags that you are unlocked or re-locked. Oh yeah, for people who pledged on the S-OFF bounty, you might want to get ready to pay someone.

Personally, I would suggest most of us sit back, wait a few days for someone to develop an automated process that does not require jumping through the hoops this does, but should you be interested in trying it now, check the link below as evidently it works.

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This is great news. Hopefully they will get it done before htc and sprint start updating to 4.0. I myself will probably do it if there is any easier way. Otherwise I wont even think of doing this. My evo4g was rooted after couple months of having it but since I bought the evo3d I haven’t had a need to root except sometimes I get mad since battery life would be better with a custom rom and I would also have free wifi tether which i miss.

also awesome for fans of sitting back and watching developers left and right claim it was theirs / that they did all the work and got kanged.

I’m definitely waiting a few days on trying this… I want the new radios, but definitely want the ability to have the old radios to jump back on for older base ROMs

devo4g

Once money starts changing hands (even a paltry $465 bounty) kanging is no longer forgivable. There was a lot of drama on XDA this week about this very phenomenon. I’ll be curious to see how many people claim the bounty belongs to them (and if anyone actually pays up).

CD_Ridge

This is good news. But, I will heed your advice to wait a bit for a less complicated and Windows supported approach for my HBOOT 1.5 unlocked phone.

WKuan725

Wow.. great news, but it saddens me at the same time. I decided to bite the bullet and root it the HTC way yesterday!

Yeah, I’ve been following ~7 developers who are stealing money from people for other people’s work/code, also quite a few misrepresenting their expenses. I saw 2 of the threads/developers I think you’re referring to blow up across 5 different sites. Was quite a month.

Watched as the banhammers were swung, various groups who had flocked to “developers” rise up to defend them, finally discovering they had been played, etc.

Also watched a group, well-intentioned, attempt to take down one of the developers and ended up cementing him in place for another few weeks to steal other’s work.

Have thought about covering a couple of the EVO-centric ones (I follow EVO, galaxy tab, a couple of other Android devices and have watched the same thing play out in many devices) but decided against it as if you point out that what the developer is claiming is nonsense, the people who don’t understand that attack you.

Basically, I don’t want G&E flooded by a bunch of misguided people that some kanging developer will aim. Had enough good people attack me already.

Basically I’m just writing this to you so it’s in the thread saying to people “hey guys, don’t donate to people who steal what they claim to develop”

Also, the bounty is near $900 now

Nick

good call on that one! i hadn’t thought of it (maybe because i am 1.40 & s-off) but this is a very good reason that people who are HTC Dumblocked to re-lock and use the new method…

I personally have been waiting for a non “dumblock” way to root 1.50 since my wife accepted the OTA like i told her not to. Just a couple more days of watching the dust settle, and if all is well, she too will be 1.40 & s-off.

Sam

But CWM Tether only works with computers. Which is nice, but doesn’t help someone that wants to tether some non-PC device. Like a PlayStation Vita or PSP, for instance.

Danny

I used this process the other day and I’m now H-Boot 1.4 with Revolutionary S-Off. It worked like a charm. There’s still no Windows alternative, but for those without Linux (as was I) there is a live CD alternative that just requires you to burn an iso and boot from disc for a portion of the process. Here’s the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1563342

Also, for those that unlocked the HTC-Dev way, this will still work, you just have to relock it first (instructions provided in link).